Jillian
- Author Halle Butler
- Narrator Halle Butler
- Publisher Orion
- Run Time 4 hours and 35 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Dogs as pets, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Humour, Modern and contemporary fiction, Office and workplace.
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What to expect
Twenty-four-year-old Megan may have her whole life ahead of her, but it already feels like a dead end, thanks to her dreadful job as a gastroenterologist's receptionist and her heart-clogging resentment of the success and happiness of everyone around her. But no one stokes Megan's bitterness quite like her coworker, Jillian, a grotesquely optimistic, thirty-five-year-old single mother whose chirpy positivity obscures her mounting struggles.
Megan and Jillian's lives become increasingly precarious as their faulty coping mechanisms--denial, self-help books, alcohol, religion, prescription painkillers, obsessive criticism, alienated boyfriends, and, in Jillian's case, the misguided purchase of a dog--send them spiraling toward their downfalls. Wickedly authentic and brutally funny, Jillian is a subversive portrait of two women trapped in cycles of self-delusion and self-destruction, each more like the other than they would care to admit.
Megan and Jillian's lives become increasingly precarious as their faulty coping mechanisms--denial, self-help books, alcohol, religion, prescription painkillers, obsessive criticism, alienated boyfriends, and, in Jillian's case, the misguided purchase of a dog--send them spiraling toward their downfalls. Wickedly authentic and brutally funny, Jillian is a subversive portrait of two women trapped in cycles of self-delusion and self-destruction, each more like the other than they would care to admit.
Critics Review
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Outrageous and amusing … reads like rubbernecking or a junk-food binge, compelling a horrified fascination and bleak laughter
Kirkus -
Wretchedly riveting
New Yorker -
Butler is an essential contemporary voice
Literary Hub -
Butler is an extremely sharp-eyed satirist, and the books are very funny, especially on the deadening banalities of office life
Guardian -
A master of writing about work and its discontents
The Millions -
The funniest book I’ve read in a long time, but also one of the most important ones
The Rumpus
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